Poems which present the more positive relationships include To His Coy Mistress and Sonnet 116 whilst Funeral Blues and Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister explore significantly more melancholic, unpleasant sentiments.

Alvin Nelson 0V1 English How are relationships presented in 3-4 of the poems you have studied? Poets often use poetic form to explore the strong, complex emotions that surround relationships. These can be positive relationships where the speaker is comfortable and open about expressing their feelings or they can be the complete opposite, with expressions of jealously, bitterness, guilt or utter hatred. Poems which present the more positive relationships include ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ whilst ‘Funeral Blues’ and ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister’ explore significantly more melancholic, unpleasant sentiments. In ‘To His Coy Mistress’, the speaker wishes to have a physical relationship with his mistress – “let us sport us while we may” but she seems to need some persuasion. The reader gets a sense of increasing frustration in the poem that speaker wants his mistress to think as he does. This suggests that she’s unwilling to have sex with him and the couple are unmarried – shown by his proposal. This frustration is beginning to show through his irony and exaggeration – mocking his mistress’ romantic ideas of love. He refers to the “Indian Ganges” and Humber”. The comparison of the renowned, religiously symbolic large Ganges to his local River Humber makes the audience aware of the poet’s irony. When exaggerating the

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Explore how the poets memorably evoke a sense of place in Composed Upon Westminster Bridge and Where I Come From

Explore how the poets memorably evoke a sense of place in ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ and ‘Where I Come From’ Composed upon Westminster by William Wordsworth is a celebration poem about how beautiful London is; an embodiment of purity where city and nature are deeply connected. This is surprising and therefore memorable as Wordsworth is regarded as one of the best Nature poets and therefore it is odd that he is praising the city, especially seeing as Wordsworth had attacked the city in the Prelude. It is presented almost as if it is a diary entry, a description of one man’s love of the best city in the world, “Earth has not anything to shew more fair”. Composed upon Westminster Bridge is a Wordsworthian sonnet and its form is poignant as sonnets are usually used to illustrate love, and this poem is about his love of London. This poem is written in iambic pentameter, consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed sounds. However in the first two lines, the first syllable is stressed, ‘Earth’ and ‘dull’. This loose rhythm makes it sound more realistic and comes closer to a conversational tone. This tone allows Wordsworth to effectively evoke a sense of place. This is backed up by the fact that Wordsworth has titled his poem like a diary entry, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1803. This also shows that this moment was memorable

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Romeo and Juliet

Paige Pidcock Explore the various ways in which Shakespeare portrays the developing love relationship between Romeo and Juliet. The romantic tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" follows the relationship rollercoaster of the lives of two teenagers as they fall in love. Both children of two feuding families, their love is not to be. We know right from the beginning that their love is a time bomb just waiting to explode. Romeo and Juliet's first meeting is at the Capulet party where its obvious Romeo is infatuated by Juliet's beauty. You can see that both Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight. As it seems they lose all thought of the party going on around them. The prologue sets the story against a backdrop of violence, bitterness and feuding. In the prologue, Shakespeare introduces the play with the opening sentence "Two households, both alike in dignity" He explains right from the beginning that there is a lot of anger between the two families as they are so alike. Shakespeare describes Romeo and Juliet as "A pair of star crossed lovers..." and then tells us "Who take their lives..." Shakespeare explains to us that their relationship is doomed from the outset and that their deaths are inevitable. Shakespeare describes the love of Romeo and Juliet as "Death-marked." This creates a sense of foreboding as it becomes clear that their love is destined for death. Shakespeare uses

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Poetry comparison

Poetry coursework We have been studying love poems, each with their own, unique meaning. The six poems that I will be analysing are: 'First Love' by John Clare, 'How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'A Birthday' by Christina Rossetti, 'A Woman to Her Lover' by Christina Walsh. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' by John Keats. 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell. Each poem gives a different point of view of love. E.g. "First Love" is about a man who has fallen in love for the first time, he shares his emotions and feeling with us. "How Do I Love Thee" is a direct poem to her lover showing how strong and measureless her love is by using non-objective things to compare her love. I will be analysing: the subject and tone of the poem, the form and structure, imagery, the rhyme and rhythm and other language patterns including alliteration, rhetorical devices and repetition. These will help me to explain the point of views. The poem "How Do I Love Thee?" By Elizabeth Barrett Browning shows us unconditional love, which is measureless. The quote 'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height' shows us how deep and meaningful his love is to her. The poem has a positive tone as it is talking about how deep her love is, it uses words like "love", "purely", "life". These words give us the positive feeling. The poem "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti is a direct poem to

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Poetry Coursework

Jc Trapani English Coursework: Poetry Comparing "The Deserter" by Winifred M.Letts and "The Hero" by Siegfried Sassoon. Both poems are during the period of war. Each of these two poems is talking about a certain person during the war time, whether he was seen as great man or an ignorant abandoner, both poems relate to a significant person. From the beginning of the story, we can already separate which one is seen as a hero and who is seen as unforgiving. The two poems begin with a completely different tones; one is delightful, but "The Deserter" starts already in the first verse with an unnamed man and the reader already sees him as worthless and unimportant. In "The Deserter" there is a clear sign of repetition in the verses 4 to 5, so as to emphasis the faults that this nameless man committed and show his mistakes in a deeper aspect. During the entire poem, the man is described as a "frightened" child and is seen as a "hare", which is the animal at the bottom of a food chain, nonetheless worthless and unimportant. The colours described in this poem are dark, signs of death and abandon, of fear and darkness, where grey is the most dominant. Yet again, in verses 24 to 25, a repetition of "an English bullet in his heart" shows that the author is feeling a sense of betrayal by this lost man and how he must have left his troops and men behind, dependent on him all along.

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The poems Stealing, Hitcher, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory all share the theme of disturbing behaviour. In S and H, this behaviour is a result of boredom.

Compare how the poets present disturbing behaviour in four of the poems from the AQA English Literature Anthology. To do this, compare .Stealing. by Duffy with one poem by Armitage and two poems from the Pre-1914 Poetry Bank. Compare: * what the disturbing behaviour is * how the poets present the disturbing behaviour by the ways they write. (36 marks) The poems 'Stealing', 'Hitcher', 'My Last Duchess' and 'The Laboratory' all share the theme of disturbing behaviour. In S and H, this behaviour is a result of boredom. S's persona steals things in order to upset others, showing his coldness. Whereas in H, the persona kills his hitcher casually. MLD also has a casual approach to death, referring to it as a 'command'. In contrast with this, TL's persona is excited by the prospect of death and wants to be much more involved in the process than in MLD. All four poems use language to convey the persona's thoughts and disturbing mindsets clearly. In S, the persona is portrayed as lonely; he steals the snowman for a 'mate' with 'a mind as cold as...my own'; he just wants someone to relate to. Is isolation and loneliness is further emphasised by how he says he and the snowman 'hugged'. He's desperate for affection; so much so, he turns to a snow sculpture. His crimes could be seen as a call for help as he deliberately 'leaves a mess' so the homeowners will know he's been there

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War poetry

G.C.S.E Poetry-War Poetry Compare and contrast the poet's attitudes to war in The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen. The two poems I am going to compare are The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which was written in the Nineteenth Century and Dulce et Decorum est, by Wilfred Owen which was written during the First World War from 1914-1918. The Charge of the Light Brigade tells the story of a brigade consisting of six hundred soldiers who rode on horseback into the 'valley of death' for half a league (about one and a half miles). They were obeying a command to charge the enemy forces that had been seizing their guns. Dulce et Decorum est is a graphical description of the death of a single soldier during a mustard gas attack which was thrown by the German army during the first world war. Both poems have a central theme of war but show very different perspectives of it. The poem Dulce et Decorum est was written by Wilfred Owen during the first world war. In this poem Owen describes the scenes of that war as he saw it. The poet tells us that the soldiers have been robbed of their dignity and respect, this has been shown by comparing them to beggars and hags. We are also told that the soldiers have been deafened due to the constant bombardment that they are hearing all the time. We are told that

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